mes
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#403
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mes is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cada una de las doce partes, de duración variable según el sistema pero similar al ciclo lunar, en que se divide el año. Pronounced [ˈmes]. It ranks #403 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mi and mm.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mes |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmes] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mes is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmes]. Corpus data places it at rank #403 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mes in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mi", "mm", "my", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is mes, spelled M-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cada una de las doce partes, de duración variable según el sistema pero similar al ciclo lunar, en que se divide el año.
- 2Período entre una fecha de un mes₁ y la equivalente del siguiente.
- 3Más simplemente, período de 30 días, usado para los cálculos económicos y legales.
- 4Salario o pago correspondiente a un mes₃.
- 5Proceso cíclico fisiológico de las mujeres y hembras sexualmente maduras de los primates catarrinos, en que el cuerpo se prepara para un eventual embarazo, produciéndose al final del ciclo un sangrado vaginal fruto de la descamación del endometrio si no se ha producido la implantación de un embrión.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #403 in Spanish
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